Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides such fancy guns as hand-tooled Mannlichers, the hunters carried brass horns and other noisemakers for luring a stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
...argument between Navy and Air Force over the Navy's persistent attempts to edge into the Air Force's field of strategic bombing. In 1948, Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, an engineering officer and atomic specialist working on an atomic submarine design (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), convinced Navy brass that an atomic carrier was possible too. The Navy held its fire until it had sold the submarine plan to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knowing that the early developmental work on the submarine could apply as well to the engine for the new carrier. Then, a year ago, Navy...
From the start, the Pentagon stupidly balked at giving definite security guarantees to Australia and New Zealand. President Truman and Dean Acheson. careless of Pacific affairs, fiddled & faddled. When President Truman's Pentagon refused to send any top brass to the Anzus meeting, President Truman's Acheson thought he better go in person, in the hope that his prestige would give the meeting standing, and help to disguise the U.S. failure to offer anything concrete to her eager Pacific partners...
Canada's armed services are faced with an alarming problem they have yet to lick: sabotage. Last year, the main bearings of the nation's only aircraft carrier, the Magnificent, were filled with sand and brass filings; last April, a bomber pilot found a Greenwood choking wad of cleansing tissue in the tube of his oxygen mask. Last week the hand of the saboteur struck again, this time at the Royal Canadian Air Force's big Greenwood base in Nova Scotia. Soon after taking off, the pilot of a Lancaster bomber ran into trouble. As he sought...
...final round Ashenfelter got off to a bad start, still trailed the field going into the second lap. But by the third lap the G-man and the Russian were out ahead of the field. When the brass bell signaled the seventh and final lap they were still shoulder to shoulder...